Posted on 05/15/2012 3:32:27 PM PDT by edcoil
You made me hungry...that sounds absolutely delicious.
And I thought he was gay - who knew?
Batali has enough fat packed away in that second chin of his to last him a month.
“...$31 per person for the week”
That’s the ‘big lie’ at the heart of the campaign.
They get away with this lie because it is the average benefit- when those reciving partial payments are included.
IE: including people who make plenty of money to buy food and yet still get some food stamps because the program is so generous.
And, of course, because media makes it’s money by selling ads to producers of food stamp products...
Does he have a twitter account.....people need to HIT IT...if he does.
I heard this pony-tailed moonbat Mario refused to let the waiters at his Manhattan restaurants serve anyone wearing GOP credentials around their necks during the Republican National Convention in NYC in 2004.
Why would they do that when they can sell their benefits for 50 cents on the dollar and buy the real stuff more easily?
Go shop at an actual grocery store, and see what is there, on sale. Go to a Dollar Tree and a Dollar General and a Family Dollar, compare prices, and get what's cheapest. Go to Wal-Mart. Maybe clip a coupon or two. Then take the stuff you buy and figure out how to actually cook it so that it has nutritional value and tastes decent and then pass that along to the people, not just on food stamps, but on a budget.
Accomplish something real for a change.
>>Also, the boys are eating school lunch, as those in low-income families do for free.<<
Bet they’re getting free breakfast too. Here in MI, if they get free lunch, they get free breakfast.
So let me get this straight. This dude is getting 31.00 per week, per person. That’s 124.00 per week or nearly 500.00 per month.
I WISH we had 500.00 a month for food. AND my kids are homeschooled so we feed three meals a day.
Tonight we had Bibimbap with tofu and egg, no meat. Anymore, meat is way expensive so we don’t eat a lot of it. With Mario’s skills he can make some fine meals on that much money. He will do what most families on EBT cards won’t, cook.
Based on the federal government’s estimates of what most families spend on FOOD eaten at home, a family spends about $123/month per person, $310 for a family of 2.5, 500 for a family of 4. Source:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
If SNAP gives more per family than this, then there is no excuse for families to not have enough money except wasting it on snacks, convenience food and more expensive food than they should get when others are paying.
I wonder if his restaurants accept EBT cards.
Go shop at an actual grocery store, and see what is there, on sale. Go to a Dollar Tree and a Dollar General and a Family Dollar, compare prices, and get what's cheapest. Go to Wal-Mart. Maybe clip a coupon or two. Then take the stuff you buy and figure out how to actually cook it so that it has nutritional value and tastes decent and then pass that along to the people, not just on food stamps, but on a budget.
Accomplish something real for a change.”
My mother fed 6 of us kids and her husband doing just that, I am in my late 60’s and still doing just that, however my wife still sticks up her nose at plain food sometimes. I do most of the cooking since the lady seems to have an aversion to the kitchen. I think the that fact I have been though a couple of the USN’s survival schools may have something to do with it. ;-)
https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/mariobatali
#FoodStampChallengeNYC
#trying
Dinner for 4 a bit high at $9.52
#gonnabehungrythursday! pic.twitter.com/2bw0y5Ta
If you have no income or minimal income, you get $200 per person per month, or $50 per week.
Not $31. This guy is a fraud.
You can easily eat on $800 per month for a family of four if you know how to stretch a dollar.
You cook like I do. Even the tough ends of parsley find a home somewhere. And that pic... Lord how the chefs that brag “I cooked for obama annoy me”
Touche.
$124 per month per person, and he's "starving"? He must still be thinking truffle oil, lobster tail, saffron, and wine are staples.
Emeril Lagasse's "Bayou Blast"
Paul Prudhomme's Blackened Seafood spice mix
And if you're in a city with ethnic grocery stores (and Batali certainly is), an Indian grocery store is a real find: foil packets of Indian spice mixes or jar of concentrated cooking sauce are a buck or two and are good for a half dozen meals for a family.
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